"We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way."
- Kate Wicker
"Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide."
- Brittany Burgunder
"Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isn’t like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (an..."
- Elyn R. Saks
"Recovery is hard. Regret is harder."
"As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything was the path to destruction."
- Rachael Rose Steil
"The only way to move forward is to focus on the good in your life and the good that you are doing for others and yourself. My past has shown me things in life, others and myself that I wouldn't wish u..."
"Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn’t need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right—and then do more of the right stuff. I n..."
- Jenni Schaefer
"With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good."
"If you think my waistline defines my worth, you are not worth my time anyways."
- Maria Elena
"Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her a..."
- Sheila M. Reindl